Though I may not be able to in the present instance to mark the limit at which further improvement will stop, I can very easily mention a point at wh… - Thomas Robert Malthus

It has been said, and perhaps with truth, that the conclusions of Political Economy partake more of the certainty of the stricter sciences than those of most of the other branches of human knowledge.

The labouring poor, to use a vulgar expression, seem always to live from hand to mouth. Their present wants employ their whole whole attention, and they seldom think of the future. Even when they have an opportunity of saving they seldom exercise it, but all that is beyond their present neccessities goes, generally speaking, to the ale house.

...where are we to look for the consumption required but among the unproductive labourers of Adam Smith?...